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Gleanings – Apocalyptic - Apocalyptic Themes From Holy Scripture
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Visions - The Son of Man
Daniel said,
I saw in my vision by night...
As I looked,
thrones were placed
and one that was ancient of days took his seat... and behold, with the clouds of heaven
there came one like a son of man,
and he came to the Ancient of Days
and was presented before him.
Dan 7:2,9,13

I, John your brother ... was in the Spirit on the Lord's day and I heard behind me a loud voice . . . Then I turned to see the voice . . . and I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man .. .
Rev 1:9,10,12,13

Then I looked, and a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man .. .
Rev 14 : 14

Visions - Divine Glory
I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with gold of Uphaz. His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his voice like the noise of a multitude.
Dan 10:5,6

Come up hither, and I will show you what must take place after this. At once I was in the Spirit, and lo, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. And he who sat there appeared like jasper and carnelian, and round the throne was a rainbow that looked like an emerald . . . From the throne issue flashes of lightning, and voices and peals of thunder .. .
Rev 4:1,2,3,5

Mysterious Numbers
The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven; and I heard him swear by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, two times and half a time ..
Dan 12:7

... the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
Rev 12:6

Visions of Strange Animals
Daniel said,
I saw in my vision by night . . . and four great beasts came up out of the sea . . . The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings . a second one, like a bear ... it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth . . . another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back; and the beast had four heads ... and behold, a fourth beast . . . it was different from all the beasts that were before it .. .
Dan 7:2-7

And round the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like a
flying eagle. And the four living creatures, each of them with six wing; are full of eyes all round and within ...
Rev 4:6-8

Apocalyptic Discourses of Jesus: Matt 29-25; Mk 13; Lk 21:5-35 Watch! Be Ready!
But if that wicked servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed,' . . the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know ...
Matt 24:48-50
If the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming he would not have left his house to be broken into. You also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an unexpected hour.
Lk 12:39-40

Watch therefore — for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening or at midnight, or et cockcrow or in the morning — lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Watch.
Mk 13:35-37

But as to the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night ...
1 Thess. 5:1-2

I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; . . . for the form of this world is passing away.
1 Cot 7:29,31

End of Time like Pangs of Childbirth
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places: all this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.
Matt 24:7-8

We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now . . . we ourselves . . . groan inwardly as we wait for adoption .. .
Rom 8:22,23

And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun . . . she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery ...
Rev. 12:1,2

The Final Vision
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,
"Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.°
And he who sat upon the throne said, 'Behold, I make all things new.°
Rev 21:1-5